Unveiling a new chapter in the understanding of human genetics, scientists have discovered a hidden geometric code within our ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

New Research Shows That “Useless” DNA May Actually Play An Important Role TwistedSifter why people often wake up around 3 AM ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...

Researchers say findings help to bridge the structure of the genome to its function in managing how genes are turned on and off.

Members of the Enterobacteriaceae family, such as Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli species, are Gram-negative pathogens responsible for a substantial burden of food-borne and gastrointestinal ...

Bacteria encode a variety of reverse transcriptases (RTs) that evolved from mobile group II intron RTs to perform different cellular functions. A previous study found that one such domesticated group ...

This valuable work presents an interpretable protein-DNA Energy Associative (IDEA) model for predicting binding sites and affinities of DNA-binding proteins. While the method is convincing, it ...

The skin is our first protective barrier. With time, the outer layer, the epidermis, thins out. It loses its ability to block external harm. Keratinocytes form most of this layer, moving upward to ...